Published: Friday, October 18, 2013 at 9:55 a.m.

Last Modified: Friday, October 18, 2013 at 10:43 p.m.

The Stambaugh Middle School student is accused of making three bomb threats — each one scrawled on the wall of a campus bathroom — that cut class attendance by half.

Hunter was handcuffed at the school Tuesday afternoon, said his mother, Natasha Jackson of Auburndale. Her son told a school resource officer that two students he couldn't name bullied him into writing the threats on the walls.

She worried Friday that the arrest will mark her son a problem child.

"He's a good kid," said Jackson, who planned to visit her son in juvenile detention Friday, her first time since the arrest. "Everybody in the whole school knows him and loves him."

The messages began appearing Sept. 20, according to the Auburndale Police Department.

"I'm a high school student," the first one read, "and I know where one of you students live. I'm going to bomm this school on the 24th of the month."

Law enforcement searched the campus the morning of Sept. 24 and screened students as they entered the building, but found nothing suspi­cious.

Two weeks passed. Then this appeared on a bathroom wall: "bom6 wensday 3rd period." A message the next day warned that "three people have a bomb."

In each instance, Hunter was the one to report the message, police said. A school resource officer asked him to write a statement about finding the threats and discovered similarities with the handwriting of the threats, the way his letter B curved to look like a number 6.

Hunter told the police two students stood behind him and forced his hand to write the words, according to his arrest report.

He is charged with three counts of false reporting of a bomb threat, a second-degree felony, and one misdemeanor count of disrupting a school function.

[ Matthew Pleasant can be reached at matthew.pleasant@theledger.com or 863-802-7590. ]

<p>AUBURNDALE | Twelve-year-old Hunter Lee Jackson saw the writing on the wall.</p><p>Police say it was his own.</p><p>The Stambaugh Middle School student is accused of making three bomb threats — each one scrawled on the wall of a campus bathroom — that cut class attendance by half.</p><p>Hunter was handcuffed at the school Tuesday afternoon, said his mother, Natasha Jackson of Auburndale. Her son told a school resource officer that two students he couldn't name bullied him into writing the threats on the walls. </p><p>She worried Friday that the arrest will mark her son a problem child.</p><p>"He's a good kid," said Jackson, who planned to visit her son in juvenile detention Friday, her first time since the arrest. "Everybody in the whole school knows him and loves him."</p><p>The messages began appearing Sept. 20, according to the Auburndale Police Department. </p><p>"I'm a high school student," the first one read, "and I know where one of you students live. I'm going to bomm this school on the 24th of the month." </p><p>Law enforcement searched the campus the morning of Sept. 24 and screened students as they entered the building, but found nothing suspi­cious.</p><p>Two weeks passed. Then this appeared on a bathroom wall: "bom6 wensday 3rd period." A message the next day warned that "three people have a bomb."</p><p>In each instance, Hunter was the one to report the message, police said. A school resource officer asked him to write a statement about finding the threats and discovered similarities with the handwriting of the threats, the way his letter B curved to look like a number 6.</p><p>Hunter told the police two students stood behind him and forced his hand to write the words, according to his arrest report.</p><p>He is charged with three counts of false reporting of a bomb threat, a second-degree felony, and one misdemeanor count of disrupting a school function.</p><p>[ Matthew Pleasant can be reached at matthew.pleasant@theledger.com or 863-802-7590. ]</p>